Multimedia Security

Course No.: ES 639

Course Title: Multimedia Security

Offerings (Internal Site for Students Enrolled in the Course) : Semester 2 (2016-17)

Credits: L-T-P-C: 3-0-0-4

Prerequisites: ES 231 Signals and Systems or equivalent

Description:

This elective course is primarily targeted towards electrical engineering and computer science graduate students which could be taken as an elective by advanced UG students as well. Good programming skills in MATLAB/Phython/C will be helpful.

Course contents:

Introduction to Information Hiding, Steganography, Watermarking and Digital Rights Management (DRM), Applications and Properties; Watermarking: Models of Watermarking; Information Theoretical Analysis of Digital Watermarking; Digital Watermarking Schemes such as Spread Spectrum Watermarking, Watermarking with Side-Information; Media Specific Digital Watermarking; Digital Watermarking Protocols such as Buyer-Seller Watermarking Protocol, Extensions of Watermarking Protocols; Attacks and Benchmarks of Digital Watermarking Systems; Steganography & Steganalysis; Digital Forensics: Processing pipeline and sensor characteristics of multimedia generation devices, identifying origin, processing history, manipulation, information leakage, or steganographic content in audio, image, or video; Introduction to Privacy-Preserving Signal Processing.

References:

• Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller, Jeffrey A. Bloom, Jessica Fridrich and Ton Kalker, “Digital Watermarking and Steganography”, Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd Edition, 2007.
• Mauro Barni, Franco Bartolini, eds., “Watermarking Systems Engineering: Enabling Digital Assets Security and Other Applications”, CRC Press, 2004.
• Stefan Katzenbeisser and Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, “Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital watermarking”, Artech House, 2000.
• Wenjun Zeng, Heather Yu and Ching-Yung Lin, eds., “Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management” Academic Press, 2011.
• Tinku Acharya, Ping-Sing Tsai, “JPEG2000 Standard for Image Compression: Concepts, Algorithms and VLSI Architectures”, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
• + Research papers related to different topics, to be posted on Google Classroom from time to time